One State, Two Nations

The Two Nations

Washington State Model United Nations

In selecting this year’s topics, we tried to find subjects that would cover a wide range of related health and public policy issues that are not often discussed or not generally well understood. For example, mental health is related to illnesses that are not viewed the same as infectious diseases and are often not identified until it is too late. On the other hand, childhood vaccination touches...

Energy and the State of Nations

The mathematical conditions for the existence of macroeconomic production functions that are state functions of the economic system are pointed out. The output elasticities and the elasticities of substitution of energy-dependent Cobb-Douglas, CES and LinEx production functions are calculated. The output elasticities, which measure the productive powers of production factors and whose numerical...

Joining the quantum state of two photons into one

Photons are the ideal carriers of quantum information for communication1,2. Each photon can have a single or multiple qubits encoded in its internal quantum state, as defined by optical degrees of freedom such as polarization, wavelength, transverse modes and so on3,4. However, as photons do not interact, multiplexing and demultiplexing the quantum information across photons has not been possib...

What can one learn from two-state single-molecule trajectories?

A time trajectory of an observable that fluctuates between two values (say, on and off), stemming from some unknown multisubstate kinetic scheme, is the output of many single-molecule experiments. Here we show that when all successive waiting times along the trajectory are uncorrelated the on and the off waiting time probability density functions contain all the information. By relating the lac...